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the age of the earth, the electron hypothesis
of terrestrial magnetism, and a host of sim-
ilar speculations, all combining to throw an
interesting light on the evolution of a mod-
ern train of thought that seems to delight
in conjecture, while rebelling against that
strict mathematical logic which has crowned
astronomy as the queen of the sciences.
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